DBD::Interbase and Interbase Events

2004-12-06 Thread Brent Wesley
Hi all I am trying to implement Interbase synchronous events. >From the little documentation that there is on the DBD::Interbase implimentation of IB events I have seen that it is very similar to Delphi. (1) Register your interest and obtain a ref to an event handle. (2) Call ib_wait_event to wai

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Persico
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:23:46 +, Martyn J. Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:25:53AM +, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > > Yes. It's finely balanced though. I can see merit on both sides. > > > > The "fill in a form" situation is relatively common. But beyond the > > "MyS

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-12-06 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:25:53AM +, Tim Bunce wrote: > Yes. It's finely balanced though. I can see merit on both sides. > > The "fill in a form" situation is relatively common. But beyond the > "MySQL/Pg model of how servers, ports, databases" work there's also > the question of specifying a

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-12-06 Thread Martyn J. Pearce
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:39:00PM +, Tim Bunce wrote: > Lots of people do, it seems, but I'm not getting much background about why. > > FWIW, the reason I'm digging here is because I agree there may be > some value in the DBI supporting something along these lines, but > I need a better under

Re: ORA-12704: character set mismatch despite US7ASCII

2004-12-06 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:02:07PM -, Dan Osborne wrote: > I'm getting the above error on a new machine set up with perl 5.8.0 > DBD-Oracle 1.16 and DBI 1.46. > > This triggers the error ... > > $cursor=$dbh->prepare(<<__SQL__); > select data_type, >

ORA-12704: character set mismatch despite US7ASCII

2004-12-06 Thread Dan Osborne
I'm getting the above error on a new machine set up with perl 5.8.0 DBD-Oracle 1.16 and DBI 1.46. This triggers the error ... $cursor=$dbh->prepare(<<__SQL__); select data_type, data_length, data_precision,

RE: DBI and ALTER SESSION bug?

2004-12-06 Thread Ronald J Kimball
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The column 'START' is of type DATE. > > Surely if one sets the date format with NLS_DATE_FORMAT, you SHOULDN'T > need to use other functions like TRUNC? No. When you perform a date comparison, the string is converted to a date, using the

DBD::mysql make test failures (another instance)

2004-12-06 Thread angie ahl
Hi List I've posted this to the perl list @ mysql too: I'm having a little fun (in a massochistic sense) trying to get DBD::mysql installed. I've got mysql (4.1.7) in a not so standard directory, my own compilation of perl 5.8.6 and mod_perl. on OS X 10.3.6 I've added the cflags and libs to Mak

Re: dbd::mysql make test failures

2004-12-06 Thread angie ahl
Hmm interesting. I'm getting similar problems (although not identical) I'm on OSX (you say Mac. I take it OS X?) have you tried the following: make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 It'll tell you where the test are failing. Angie On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:57:38 +1030, Oliver Boermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot